Webinar – Cataract and Community Engagement

A webinar was held on Monday 17th April 2023 to celebrate two recent issues of the CEHJ:

Improving Cataract Services

Community Engagement and Patient-centred Care

Speakers included:

• Professor Fatima Kyari, University of Abuja and the International Centre for Eye Health, who gave an overview of the cataract issue key topics
• Sumrana Yasmin, Technical Lead for URE at Sightsavers, who gave an overview of the community engagement issue

Further panel members included:

• Dr Demissie Tadesse, Regional Eye Health Adviser, CBM Africa East & South Regional Office
• Professor Hannah Faal, University of Calabar
• Sureshkumar Rajaram, Lions Aravind Institute of Community Ophthalmology
• Faith Langat, Vision Impact Programme, Bomet County, Kenya

Recordings of the session are available on YouTube:

• Webinar Highlights Recording
• Full Recording

Speaker slides are available here:

• Fatima Kyari – Cataract Issue
• Sumrana Yasmin – Community Engagement Issue
• Suresh Rajaram – Lions Aravind Community Engagement Case Study